github-reply

github-reply is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hugobowne/show-us-your-agent-skills. It costs 65 tokens per session (1,163 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A drafting assistant for writing replies to GitHub pull requests and issues. Pull requests are proposed code changes, while issues are reports, questions, or tasks in a repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to draft approvals, requests for changes, closures, issue-triage comments, or other maintainer responses. The drafted text is copied to the clipboard.
Why use it?
It helps turn the discussion, code changes, and maintainer's preferred tone into a reply ready for review.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to draft approvals, requests for changes, closures, issue-triage comments, or other maintainer responses. The drafted text is copied to the clipboard.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hugobowne/show-us-your-agent-skills/github-reply
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add hugobowne/show-us-your-agent-skills --skill github-reply
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hugobowne/show-us-your-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for github-reply

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hugobowne/show-us-your-agent-skills/github-reply.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/hugobowne/show-us-your-agent-skills/github-reply)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/hugobowne/show-us-your-agent-skills/github-reply"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/hugobowne/show-us-your-agent-skills/github-reply.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 65 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,163 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Anti-Refusal · line 59
    Skill instructs the agent to omit warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Stripping safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.
    Fix: Remove instructions that suppress warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Let the agent surface safety-relevant caveats to the user.
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00065 $0.01163
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00581
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00233
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00116

Measured 9d ago against content hash 256eb4b6740e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-reply scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/github-reply/SKILL.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Maintainer Reply

Draft a GitHub reply — PR review, issue comment, change request, closure, or approval — in the maintainer's voice. The output goes to the clipboard.

Process

  1. Gather context. Read the PR/issue, all comments, and the diff if it's a code review. Understand what the contributor did and why. Check if there's a linked issue.
  2. Decide the response type. Approval, change request, closure, or informational comment. If unclear, ask.
  3. Draft the reply following the voice guide below.
  4. Copy to clipboard with pbcopy. Show the user what you drafted so they can review before posting.

Voice

Core Principle

Every reply protects the maintenance surface of the framework. That's the lens. "Will this be a burden to maintain?" drives every decision — what to merge, what to reject, what to reshape.

Tone

Direct, warm but not performative, technically precise. Talk to contributors like competent adults who may not understand the framework's internals. Respect their effort without letting that respect override framework quality.

Never hedge. Don't say "I'm not sure if we should..." — say "I'm uncomfortable with X" or "this isn't something we need." Don't open negotiations when requesting changes — state what you need. Change requests are informational, not conversational.

Don't be rude, but don't be so polite that the message gets lost. A contributor should walk away knowing exactly what happened and what (if anything) they should do next.

What NOT to do

  • Don't use bullet-point summaries of what the PR does (the contributor knows what they wrote)
  • Don't say "great work!" followed by a rejection — that's confusing
  • Don't ask "what do you think?" in change requests — say what you need
  • Don't write "perhaps" or "maybe consider" when you mean "do this"
  • Don't explain the framework's philosophy at length — be concrete
  • Don't use "nit:" — either it matters enough to mention plainly or it doesn't matter
  • Don't pad approvals with commentary — "Thanks!" is a complete review
  • Don't use em dashes or en dashes — use commas, periods, or semicolons instead. Dashes are an LLM tell.
  • Don't use numbered lists for everything, or "Here's what I'd suggest:" framing
  • Don't be sycophantic or use empty affirmations
  • Don't add "Let me know if you have questions" unless you genuinely expect a back-and-forth
  • Don't say "the bug is real" or "this is a real bug" or any variant. It's condescending — implies you were going to dismiss the report. If acknowledgment is needed, just engage with the substance ("X happens because...") or skip the acknowledgment entirely and go straight to the response.
  • Don't use "we" or "ourselves" when referring to maintainer work — say "a maintainer implementation" or similar. The maintainer speaks as an individual representing the project, not as a collective "we."

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 74 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 256eb4b6740e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github-reply is a skill published in the GitHub repository hugobowne/show-us-your-agent-skills (67 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 1,163 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.